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Neurosis and Human Growth (1950)

Author: Karen Horney
Keywords: philosophy; psychoanalysis; horney
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Year: 1950
Language: English
Collection: opensource

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Horney, Karen. Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Toward Self-Realization. N. Y.: W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1950.

Dr. Horney sees the neurotic process as a special form of human development, the antithesis of healthy growth. Under favor­able conditions, she believes, man's energies go toward realizing his own potentialities. Under inner stress, a person becomes alienated from his real self and throws his energies into creating and building up a false, idealized self, based on pride but harassed by doubts, self-contempt, and self-hate. Carefully and clearly Dr. Horney unfolds the different stages of this situation, describing neurotic claims, the tyranny of inner dictates, and the neurotic's solutions for relieving the tensions of conflict in such emotional attitudes as domination, self-effacement, dependency or resignation. Throughout, the author stresses the goal of liberation for the forces that lead to true self-realization.

"Neurosis and Human Growth" reflects Karen Horney's rich clinical experience and many years of matured thought.

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: Kahonor - - July 6, 2010
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"Karen Horney's best book is Neurosis and Human Growth (1950). It is the best book on neurosis ever, in my humble opinion."
Dr. C. George Boeree (Psychology Department,
Shippensburg University)

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